Portrait of Norbert Goeneutte
Medium
Drypoint; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 5/16 × 9 3/4 in. (33.8 × 24.7 cm) Plate: 9 1/4 × 6 3/16 in. (23.5 × 15.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.63.169
Tags
Art Historical Context
This 1876 drypoint portrait captures Norbert Goeneutte, a French painter and printmaker closely associated with the Impressionist circle, rendered by his contemporary Marcellin Desboutin. Created as the first state of two impressions, the work exemplifies the intimate artistic exchanges among young Parisian artists in the 1870s. Both men moved in the same social and professional circles that included Édouard Manet, and such portraits often served as tokens of friendship as well as artistic experimentation. Drypoint technique lends the image its distinctive soft, velvety lines. The artist scra...
About the Artist
Norbert Goeneutte|Marcellin Desboutin · 1854–1894
Comment on works: painter; graphic artist; illustrator